madcratebuilder
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My neighbor lady is in her late eighties. I have always taken time to talk with her, helped her a few times with little things over the past ten years or so. She is aware of my fire arm passion. Sunday she came over with a paper bag full of guns. She said "well you give me $50 apiece for these" set them down, we made a little small talk and she went home.
I open the sack and find a Hi-Standard B model, some one has cut the barrel off to 4", no front sight. Other than that it's pretty clean.
Next in a small leather holster is a small pocket auto covered in green growth. It cleans up to be a Walther model 9 in good condition, right grip is broken, needs the typical firing pin spring.
Third one out is a LLama ESpecial mini 1911. This is the first one of these I have seen, cleaned up to be a 98% pistol. It's a 7.65/32acp.
Fourth one is in a holster, again covered in green grime. It's a Ruger Bearcat, cleaned up to about 98%. I really do not have a need for a SA rimfire revolver, but it's a cool little gun.
In the bottom of the sack, in a old bank cash sack I find a nearly new S&W model 36 no dash. Just a touch of bluing gone near the muzzle.
I'm thinking she could get close to a grand selling them to a dealer locally. I go over to her house and tell her that these are worth a bit more than fifty dollars each. I offer to sell them for her. She continues to insist that she wants me to have them. They belonged to her late husband and she wants them to go to someone who well enjoy them. After more discussion I give her five hundred dollars for the lot.
My problem is I'm feeling like I screwed her out of a lot of money, wait it gets worse. Monday morning, bright and early she drags over three long guns. Two are in very old canvas cases and one is an old BB gun. She insists that they are part of the deal. Later in the day I get around to looking at these rifles. First is a old S&W co2 bb gun. I have no knowledge about it. Second is a Winchester model 77 tube feed .22lr semi auto. Just what I need another .22 rifle. It cleans up nice, kind of a cool rifle, different than my 10/22's. Here's the ringer, I pull a Savage model 99 in .250-3000 out of it's canvas case. It's very nice, a few dings from hunting. First time I have handled one of these. I find they are some what valuable.
I go to my neighbor and attempt to give her more money for the rifles but she well not hear of it. I'm thrilled about the new additions but feeling guilty at the same time. Should I just thank my lucky stars or should I sell these and give her the proceeds. She does not need it, she's well off.
Tell me what you think.
I open the sack and find a Hi-Standard B model, some one has cut the barrel off to 4", no front sight. Other than that it's pretty clean.
Next in a small leather holster is a small pocket auto covered in green growth. It cleans up to be a Walther model 9 in good condition, right grip is broken, needs the typical firing pin spring.
Third one out is a LLama ESpecial mini 1911. This is the first one of these I have seen, cleaned up to be a 98% pistol. It's a 7.65/32acp.
Fourth one is in a holster, again covered in green grime. It's a Ruger Bearcat, cleaned up to about 98%. I really do not have a need for a SA rimfire revolver, but it's a cool little gun.
In the bottom of the sack, in a old bank cash sack I find a nearly new S&W model 36 no dash. Just a touch of bluing gone near the muzzle.
I'm thinking she could get close to a grand selling them to a dealer locally. I go over to her house and tell her that these are worth a bit more than fifty dollars each. I offer to sell them for her. She continues to insist that she wants me to have them. They belonged to her late husband and she wants them to go to someone who well enjoy them. After more discussion I give her five hundred dollars for the lot.
My problem is I'm feeling like I screwed her out of a lot of money, wait it gets worse. Monday morning, bright and early she drags over three long guns. Two are in very old canvas cases and one is an old BB gun. She insists that they are part of the deal. Later in the day I get around to looking at these rifles. First is a old S&W co2 bb gun. I have no knowledge about it. Second is a Winchester model 77 tube feed .22lr semi auto. Just what I need another .22 rifle. It cleans up nice, kind of a cool rifle, different than my 10/22's. Here's the ringer, I pull a Savage model 99 in .250-3000 out of it's canvas case. It's very nice, a few dings from hunting. First time I have handled one of these. I find they are some what valuable.
I go to my neighbor and attempt to give her more money for the rifles but she well not hear of it. I'm thrilled about the new additions but feeling guilty at the same time. Should I just thank my lucky stars or should I sell these and give her the proceeds. She does not need it, she's well off.
Tell me what you think.
